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Prakash Amte |
Magasaysay Medal |
Prakash Amte and his wife Mandakini are jointly selected for Ramon Magsaysay Award 2008 in the category Community Leadership for their philanthropic work with the Madia Gonds in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra and the neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The couple is running a hospital and school in Hemal Kasa village in Vidharba for decades. They worked for the welfare of tribals “Madia and Gondu” in Hemal Kasa. He obtained a medical degree from GMC, Nagpur
He started Lok Biradari Prakalp, a project for the development of tribal people in the forests of Gadchirolli district in 1973. The project seeks to improve health and educational services for tribals in this district.
Prakash Amte is son of Baba Amte who was also received Magsaysay Award in 1985. Dr. Dighant and Dr. Aniketh are sons of Prakash Amte are also walking on the path of their parents.
The other winners of the award are Grace Padaca – Philippines, Therdchai Jivacate – Thailand, Akio Ishii – Japan, Ahmad Syafii Maarif – Indonesia, Ananda Galappatti - Sri Lanka and one organization Center for Agriculture & Rural Development Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI) – Philippines.
The award was instituted in the year 1957, to commemorate Ramon Magsaysay, the late president of the Philippines. So far 250 individuals or organizations are honored with Ramon Magsaysay Award.
The winners will be presented in a function at Manila in Philippines on 31of August, 2008.
List of Indians who received Ramon Magsaysay Award.
S.No. |
Name of the Recipient |
Year |
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Government Service |
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| 1 |
C D Deshmukh |
1959 |
| 2 |
Kiran Bedi |
1994 |
| 3 |
T N Seshan |
1996 |
| 4 |
James Michael Lyngdoh |
2003 |
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India Public Service |
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| 1 |
Jayaprakash Narayan |
1965 |
| 2 |
M.S. Subbulakshmi |
1974 |
| 3 |
Manibhai Desai |
1982 |
| 4 |
Baba Amte |
1985 |
| 5 |
Laksmhi Chand Jain |
1989 |
| 6 |
Banoo Jehangir Coyaji |
1993 |
| 7 |
Mahesh Chandra Mehta |
1997 |
| 8 |
V Shanta |
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Community Leader ship |
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| 1 |
Vinoba Bhave |
1958 |
| 2 |
Verghese Kurien, Dara Khurodi, Tribhuvandas Patel |
1963 |
| 3 |
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay |
1966 |
| 4 |
M.S. Swaminathan |
1971 |
| 5 |
Ela Bhatt |
1977 |
| 6 |
Mabelle Arole, Rajanikant Arole |
1979 |
| 7 |
Pramod Karan Sethi |
1981 |
| 8 |
Chandi Prasad Bhatt |
1982 |
| 9 |
Pandurang Shastri Athavale |
1996 |
| 10 |
Aruna Roy |
2000 |
| 11 |
Rajendra Singh |
2001 |
| 12 |
Shantha Sinha |
2003 |
| 13 |
Dr. Prakash Amte and Dr. Mandakini Amte |
2008 |
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Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
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| 1 |
Amitabha Chowdhury |
1961 |
| 2 |
Satyajit Ray |
1967 |
| 3 |
Boobli George Verghese |
1975 |
| 4 |
Sombhu Mitra |
1976 |
| 5 |
Gour Kishore Ghosh |
1981 |
| 6 |
Arun Shourie |
1982 |
| 7 |
R. K. Laxman |
1984 |
| 8 |
K.V. Subbanna |
1991 |
| 9 |
Ravi Shankar |
1992 |
| 10 |
Mahasweta Devi |
1997 |
| 11 |
P. Sainath |
2007 |
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India Peace and International Understanding |
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| 1 |
Mother Teresa |
1962 |
| 2 |
Welthy Fisher (American) |
1964 |
| 3 |
Henning Holck-Larsen (Danish) |
1976 |
| 4 |
Jockin Arputham |
2000 |
| 5 |
Laxminarayan Ramdas |
2004 |
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Emergent Leadership |
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| 1 |
Sandeep Pandey |
2002 |
| 2 |
Arvind Kejriwal |
2006 |
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| Two foreigners received awards residing in India. |
